Surgery
Extra COVID vaccine may help protect transplant patients
A small study offers the first hint that an extra dose of COVID-19 vaccines just might give some organ transplant recipients a needed boost in protection.
Jun 15, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Vaccination helps protect the unvaccinated from COVID-19
Higher levels of vaccination against COVID-19 were associated with lower rates of infection with SARS-CoV-2 among a group of unvaccinated people of 16 years of age and under, reports a study in Nature Medicine. The findings, ...
Jun 11, 2021
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Vaccination
US to 'supercharge' pandemic fight with huge vaccine donation
The US will donate 500 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to poorer nations, the White House said Thursday, to "supercharge" the pandemic fight as the World Health Organization warned Europeans not to drop their guard because ...
Jun 10, 2021
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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine recipients have lower antibody levels targeting the Delta variant
Levels of antibodies in the blood of vaccinated people that are able to recognise and fight the new SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant first discovered in India (B.1.617.2) are on average lower than those against previously circulating ...
Jun 4, 2021
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Medical research
Scientists find new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
The early immune response in a person who has been vaccinated for COVID-19 can predict the level of protection they will have to the virus over time, according to analysis from Australian mathematicians, clinicians, and scientists, ...
May 17, 2021
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Pregnant women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines, pass antibodies to newborns
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found the new mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be highly ...
Mar 25, 2021
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Can vaccinated people still spread the coronavirus?
So you've gotten your coronavirus vaccine, waited the two weeks for your immune system to respond to the shot and are now fully vaccinated. Does this mean you can make your way through the world like the old days without ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Education is now a bigger factor than race in desire for COVID-19 vaccine
New findings from the Understanding Coronavirus in America survey reveal that when it comes to attitudes and beliefs about the COVID-19 vaccine—from willingness to get the vaccine to knowing someone who has been vaccinated ...
Feb 26, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What happens to immunity levels post COVID-19 infection?
Australian scientists have described the evolution of immunity levels up to four months following COVID-19 infection, finding that while antibody levels drop dramatically in the first one to two months, the decrease then ...
Feb 22, 2021
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Iran's Rouhani warns of virus 'fourth wave'
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani warned Saturday of a COVID-19 "fourth wave" as cases rise in certain areas of the Middle Eastern country hardest hit by the pandemic.
Feb 13, 2021
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